Denialism

It is All Right for Journalists to Call Denials of the Climate Crisis what they are: Lethal Falsehoods

By Denis Muller | – In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in Australia was henceforth taking what he called a “zero-tolerance” approach to climate change deniers and sceptics. Their comments would be blocked and their accounts locked. His reasons were succinct: Climate change deniers and those […]

Brazil

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

The Conversation

By Liberty Vittert | – This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade. Much like Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” competition, the international statistic is meant to capture the zeitgeist of this decade. The judging panel accepted nominations from the statistical community and […]

Climate Crisis

Americans want an End to Fossil Fuels, but Corporate Media won’t Tell You So

Basav Sen

The Washington Post downplayed the most hopeful findings of their own poll on climate action, so we highlighted those findings for them.

Climate Crisis

Top 5 Ways Corrupt Corporations spend $200 Mn/ yr. to spread Confusion and Denial about Climate Emergency

The Conversation

By Mark Maslin | – The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change – where none exists. The latest estimate is that the world’s five largest publicly-owned oil and gas companies spend about US$200 million a year on lobbying […]

Climate Crisis

How Big Oil Committed the Greatest Scam in History and Smeared Climate Science

Tomdispatch

By Naomi Oreskes | – (Tomdispatch.com) – It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made […]

Climate Crisis

Not done Destroying Earth, Germany’s Far Right to Make anti-Climate Activism Major Plank in Campaign

Clean Energy Wire

By Julian Wettengel | – (Clean Energy Wire) – Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made its critique of policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect the global climate a major issue in its political strategy. “After the euro and immigration, criticism of the so-called climate action policy is the third major […]

Climate Change

Failing Breitbart Comes for Juan Cole on Climate History and it Won’t Go Well

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I understand that the far, far rightwing reused toilet paper that is Breitbart ran a hit piece on me today for daring question the record of Florida’s Saint DeSantis on doing nothing about carbon dioxide emissions that are sinking his state. Breitbart’s offices are in Los Angeles, which is itself […]

Climate Change

Climate denial: Donald Trump mimics criminal behaviour when justifying his stance

The Conversation

By Ruth McKie | – While much of the world now recognises the need for immediate action, there are still those who question the scientific consensus on climate change and deter efforts to tackle it. As might be expected, they have the attention of US President Donald Trump and his Republican administration. The Heartland Institute’s […]

Climate Change

Are ExxonMobil Executives the most evil people in the 200K-yr-long History of Humanity?

Juan Cole

They are Darth Vaders and Thanatoses, they are destroyers of a planet